Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-23

hGd his work done N q twinkling and
James Ke3ert, the night caller, had the
trains crew on hand 20 dot. In five
minutes from the tine the train pulled
in the cabocsA vas hitting the CROSSING
pulling Tor TeX1rkaHa. THIS is the best
tins ever made il the country and the
boys challenge any vardmaster's crew 10
beat i.
Either the St. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas, the st. Louis aud San Francisco.
or the Houston and Texas Central will
build the Saerman-FOrs Worth Air Line.
II enc OF these companies does not build
II Sherman and Fort Worth will have 10
hitch teams and pull it through.
TIE Fort Worth and Rio Grauda is put
ing In ? switch TO conneC. with the Texas
, and Pacific west Ct High Bridge street
, Trains viii pass over the Texas and Pa
cite to the Union depot and 10 the Texas
and PsCitic freight depot until the Jen-
I nings Injunction IS settled, when track
win be lad to the cOmDa1y's grounds.
Last 81 elk number Of cars Of stock
belonging e Jesse Evans OF Big Springs
were thrown from the track. Five head
o. stock were killed ard the rest OF the
4 512 head scattered over the country.
/ When the loss was made known bv the
/ company, l.. s. Thorne, master CT trars-
portGtlon; W. W. Finley, general freight
| agent, and j G. Harris, general live stack
agent, went TO Big Springs TO see Mr..
/ Trans. \ settlement at So per head wae
agreed upon aad Mr.. Finley wired the
auditor to send Mr. Evans check for the
money, which check Mr.. Evans received
t0-day. The company hes rounded III
neGIly 2ll the cattle and will not be out
much. This settlement vas made very
promptly and shows desire on She part
Of the Texas and Pacific TO Go the tail
thing promptly.
TIE Chicago Railway Age in it8 issue
OF August ~ prints carefully prepared
table Of the principal railway accident.
in the LAST foTty years. Tie greatest dis
aster on record occurred on foreigr
line, the More!is Railway, caused bv {
broken bridge over the San Antonio
river, killing 200 people This
Wss on June u, 1881. The mex
/, in order was June %, 1864, on th.
Grand Trunk Of Canada at the Rjchelicl
river an open draw bridge causing Il,
death OF eighty-siX persons and III,
wounding Of hundreds. o. Dtcelrbe
%, 1876, on the Lake Snore snd Mich
, gan Southern broken bridge ct Ashta
, bula, Ohio, killed over eighty people al,
wounded sixty. Next in loss C
life was that on August 10, 1887
on tie Toledo, Feoria ard West
t ern st Chatsw0Ith, illinois, caused b.
q buried culvert when = were killed sn,
10 Injured Ca December IS, 1879, .,
2 the North British Bs1lwsy g dcr1i3men
: on the T&y bridge killed a. o. June 5
1885, 81 Koslef, Russia, a train was de
rallied Dy wreckers ana 70pcrsons killed
, In Texas on November II
: 1884, st Hampstead, on Il
Houston and Texas Central
q rail was removed and 10 passenger
( were killed snd Is wounded. O
= December 4, 1855, On the Texas and Pa
c.dc a. Gordon, Tex, train was de
rallied on q bridge, > were killed and i
I injured. On December 81, 1886 8
/ Devils river, Tex, on the Southern Pa
cilic, g collision killed 9 and wounded II
The first railroad accident on record oC
f CURED April /, 1886, on the Lexingto
] and Ohio, caused by dersilment, killing
aad iDiuring -.